SLIDE SHOWS AND LECTURES ON ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
The following talks are designed as overviews of the topic of alternative medicine.  These presentations are suitable for use as high school or university lectures and may be used freely so long as Canadians for Rational Health Policy is credited.

"CAM Overview" is a 2 hour talk which covers the following topics:  History
of alternative medicine and scientific medicine, patterns of use of CAM,
costs of CAM, people's reasons for choosing CAM, common misconceptions about
CAM, why testing for safety and effectiveness is important, and public
health problems associated with belief in unproven therapies.

"CAM dangers" is a 40 minute talk focused on some of the problems caused by
patient faith in unproven therapies: financial harm, miseducation, delay in
seeking proper care, and diversion from truly effective treatments.

"CAM Insurance" is a 1-hour presentation geared towards health
administrators.  This presentation covers definitions of CAM, the history of
CAM and scientific medicine and the key differences between them, the
reasons why scientific medicine has superseded what came before 1900,
demographics of CAM use and methods by which good research can be sorted
from bad when determining which therapies are truly beneficial.